The Logic of Unity: The Discovery of Zero and Emptiness in Prajnaparamita Thought (SUNY Series in Buddhist Studies)
By Hosaku Matsuo.
Description
This clear and elegant translation reveals how a modern Japanese thinker dared to show the basic flaw of Western epistemology. In unmasking this limitation, Matsuo presents an Eastern view of a unified experience, and provides an epistemological basis for comparative philosophy.Matsuo notes that while early Greek thought began by focusing on the right counsel ("Know thyself"), since then Western thought has been influenced by empiricistic analysis fired by the rise of scientific philosophy. The author thus turns to Eastern epistemology, in particular Buddhist thought, for clues to...
ISBN(s)
0887063926, 9780887063923
